Professors in pop culture
Professor McGonagall is an animagus in the Harry Potter series, she transforms at will into this animal.
What is Cat ?
Developing students' communicative competence, enabling them to express themselves effectively in interaction situations across different contexts is the main goal of teaching _______ _______ in high school.
What is Foreign Language / English ?
This skill is frequently underdeveloped in Brazilian high school students learning English, as classes often prioritize reading and writing instead of practicing ______.
What is speaking/ conversation ?
Walter White's pseudonym in the tv show 'Breaking Bad'
What is Heisenberg ?
This techique consists of quickly reading a text to get the main ideas
What is skimming ?
Mention 3 tools (apps, websites, etc) that can be used in a classroom to create a quiz like activity with the students ?
What is Kahoot, Worldwall, Mentimeter, etc ?
The object Indiana Jones is trying to protect in the movie: "Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark"
What is the Ark of the Covenant ?
____________ allow students to learn the foreign language in a contextualized manner, integrating knowledge from other areas of the curriculum and enabling meaningful learning.
What are Interdisciplinary Projects ?
This is the name of the most common sound in English, often found in unstressed syllables and represented by an upside-down "e" in phonetics.
What is the schwa?
Professor Xavier in the X-Men series uses this device to find Mutants across the Earth.
What is Cerebro ?
___________ __________helps students understand how linguistic structures work in practice, focusing not exclusively on formal rules but on how they are used in real communication.
What is Contextualized Grammar ?
This is the primary method many Brazilian high schools rely on for teaching English, often criticized for focusing on grammar and translation rather than communication.
What is the Grammar-Translation Method?
Mr Keating, the English Literature teacher, in the movie "Dead Poet Society" says that the boys can call him________ This is the most famous quote from the movie.
What is "O Captain. My Captain" ?
The teacher should use linguistic and metalinguistic knowledge of the ___________ ________ to teach the foreign language, seeking points of convergence and contrast between them.
What is Native Language ?
The official Brazilian curriculum guidelines, known as this document, emphasize communicative competence in English as a fundamental skill for students.
What is the BNCC (Base Nacional Comum Curricular)?